Dr. Rachel Hilliard BComm, MA, Ph.D.

Contact Details

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Lecturer

Address

ManagementRoom No: CA 315ManagementSchool of Business and EconomicsNUI GalwayIreland

Telephone:

091 492932

Email:

ei.yawlagiun@draillih.lehcar

Biography:

Rachel’s research interests are in the area of the role of learning and innovation in organisations, developing organisational capability theory and especially the nascent theoretical area of dynamic capabilities. She has applied this to understanding the capacity of firms to adapt environmental innovation. She also researches the role of capabilities at the regional and national level, including governance capability of national systems. She recently spent a sabbatical as a Visiting Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University. She is currently engaged in research on Irish innovation and industrial policy, as part of the TASC expert working group and industrial policy commission. She is supervising PhD students looking at the areas of inter-organisational learning, mechanisms for knowledge transfer and capabilities for environmental innovation.

Rachel has worked as a lecturer in Management at NUI Galway since 2002. She is currently an Associate Head of School with responsibility for developing the School's research culture and profile. She is also an Associate Academic Director of the AUA’s suite of technology management postgraduate programmes: MSc in Technology Management, Diploma in Technology Commercialisation, Diploma in Innovation Management.

Dr Rachel Hilliard holds a BCommerce from University College Cork and an MA in Economics of the European Union from the University of Exeter. She completed her PhD, ‘Learning to change: the role of organisational capabilities in industry reposonse to environmental regulation,’ at Dublin City University Business School in 2002. She has previously worked in industry, as a researcher on an FP4 international project at QUB and as a lecturer in DCU.

Selected Publications:

Hilliard Rachel and David Jacobson (2011). ‘Cluster versus Firm-specific Factors in the Development of Dynamic Capabilities in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Ireland: A Study of Responses to Changes in Environmental Protection Regulations.’ Regional Studies, Vol 45(10), pp. 1319-1328. [link]

Hilliard, R (2006) 'The Role of Organizational Capabilities in Cleaner Technology Adoption: an Analysis of the Response of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Sector in Ireland to IPC Licensing Regulations'. European Environment, 16 :336-349. [DOI] [Details]